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@yesyeahyes1
January 20, 2026 at 6:46 pm
1:38 *when you’re buying a pair of gloves for 90 cents, the likelihood that that factory had the best labour laws, the best sustainability capabilities, is 0%***
@dduay
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 pm
Workers don’t make gloves.
Machines do.
It’s the supply chain of machines, mechanics, market of scale that makes them cheap.
@owboky102050
January 20, 2026 at 6:51 pm
Japan was the same way in the late 50s and 60s low quality
Look at them now
@lamB4you
January 20, 2026 at 6:55 pm
26:42 and now they’ve become so good at it, America is saying you’re too good at this 😅🤣
@droomagon
January 20, 2026 at 6:59 pm
its been very well known already that almost all the crap they sell on temu are just junk, rarely are good stuff
@WillFuI
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 pm
I love that they build the chips in America then send them to china for packaging then send it back to America that’s so cool and efficient
@itsreallyLINCOLN
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 pm
One of the few Wired videos where I had more questions going than coming, lol. Very interesting. Going to research different things. Like WTH is BYD? 😂
@keaixiaomeinv
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 pm
When you ask an expert, you get expert answers.
@daijahscott8479
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 pm
I want a BYD so bad
@Joelmonterrey
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 pm
These are so good! I am WIRED in!
@bial12345
January 20, 2026 at 7:20 pm
This guy sounds really happy and excited about some objectively dystopian things.. cool cool very cool. Glad we’ll have factories making things with no human involvement, hey how are people going to make money to buy those things again?
@moulhamloukili594
January 20, 2026 at 7:24 pm
It ain’t that cheap .
@pastelfantasy_rika
January 20, 2026 at 7:26 pm
Every country literally gave China power and now regretting it
@TheTexastim
January 20, 2026 at 7:26 pm
Wow, truth sits simple , a labour force at 20% cost many even illetrate btw , means a 80% mark up and sent ‘labour’ force to other countries is forced and against will, and with Africa ! The blackmail is public rail lines disused etc . Feel this vid is smoothing over some facts. I buy off these sites btw, but at least I feel guilty about it and acknowledge it.
@安5-m2u
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 pm
Finally a knowledgable American who knows about China, rather than spreading anti-China propaganda
@zaphyrae
January 20, 2026 at 7:38 pm
North Carolina mentioned!! Yea, the furniture industry isn’t really a thing people know about here, so I doubt it’s doing super great. 😢
@Jnr-x97
January 20, 2026 at 7:43 pm
He glossed over the important part which is Chinese companies just smuggled Nvidia chips into the country.
@johanneshoefnagels2650
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 pm
Idk but this fkn brands ruined my business. 😢
@HunterNapier
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 pm
USA can’t get me 4 lifepo batteries and 8 200 watt solar panels for under two grand. Never had a problem with them either, and if I do, so what? I replace the one that dies. You look at a site like Battleborn and they want you to pay an arm and a leg for what is essentially the same battery. It isn’t like the customer support is going to be any better either. Everything has moved to crappy AI chatbots or outsourced call centers (only one I give credit to is Summit Racing)
Can hardly get good steel or lumber.
We closed all of our electronics shops for repairing things like radioshack and fry’s, where else do I get the parts for it? Autoparts stores are staffed by people that have never touched a car in their life and often carry stuff that I end up constantly having to return (remanufactured brake calipers were my stickler last year)
Nothing is being done about the outrageous healthcare and cost of living issues, and wages continue to stay pretty stagnant. How are we supposed to pay the increased cost of manufacturing locally when all they do is jack the bill up with no incentives?
@emote_control
January 20, 2026 at 7:56 pm
16:37 Or Canada.
@rickydawn4431
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 pm
The US did want to sell China less powerful chips, China blocked them though.
@leemarco9596
January 20, 2026 at 8:07 pm
China is not working like a real economy, but rather heavily subsidies and strategically lose money in key sector to kill competition and then use that as a bargaining chip around the world.
@johnlockegg7095
January 20, 2026 at 8:09 pm
So basically, China ist more competitive?
@Tbonesteak23
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 pm
Chine never really fully gave up protectionism but they certainly do it masterfully without abusing it. A full exclusion of competitive foreign products and technology with complex barriers (like what the US is doing with Chinese EVs) creates an under-competed market and the domestic products become less competitive globally over time so it’s an outright bad strategy. In contrast, China opens up their market to global sector leaders like Tesla in a very strategic way – come to our market, make huge sales and profit, that’s fine as long as your local operations also help building a local supply chain for that product sector. This is the long-term and sustainable game and it has happened and succeeded repeatedly in many sectors. Then if you look a the prospect of BYD building a factory in the US, the likelihood is extremely small because of unstable trade and national security policies.
We now see German car makers starting to adopt the same strategy for EVs by bringing Chinese tech and capabilities into German brands (e.g. Volkswagen ID3), and setting up mirroring manufacturing capabilities in both China and Germany. This certainly nurtures local EV supply chain in Germany and I’m pretty optimistic that eventually German brands will catch up. Any piece of technology can hardly be kept secret for a long time, instead they flow like water as talents and capital move around the world. You just need to be smart and strategic enough to create the right environment and policies to facilitate the inflow of tech and know-how rather than shutting down foreign competition down completely in fear of getting out-competed.
Watching how the Chinese and US government each manages trade and industrial policies differently has been like watching a chess grandmaster playing against a five-year old, especially with the current administration.
@samwight
January 20, 2026 at 8:20 pm
996 had been illegal in China for quite a bit now.
@TravelingWithLex
January 20, 2026 at 8:24 pm
You mention environmental regulations several times, implying that they’re an impediment to more efficient, cost-effective business growth. I think it’s important to apply intelligent (though not excessively onerous) environmental protections for same reason William C. Norris of Control Data Corp. once articulated in a different context: “You can’t DO business is a society that’s burning.” The cost of environmental protection, like the cost of safety, is significant. The cost of NOT building those protections into our business models is existential.
@AalapShah12297
January 21, 2026 at 11:37 am
6:42 “When the ‘terrorists’ first were announced” 🤦
Please fire the person who is making the subtitles – they are just using re-formatting automated captions to leech your money.
@thenakedsuperhero1926
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 am
You’re pretty oblivious for a “professional” to say that the main reason people use china isn’t because its dirt cheap compared to anywhere else in the world
@Mikehibbett
January 21, 2026 at 12:21 pm
Thank you for such a good analysis. I first worked with China in the late 1980s, I agree with your observations.
@ijustfelldown
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 pm
This video was so badly cut that I truly believe you could trigger an epileptic person without even using flashing lights.
@tiffanyvo1525
January 21, 2026 at 12:56 pm
very informative, i learned so much!
@an_Amber
January 21, 2026 at 1:19 pm
China is way capable to make high end products. The problem is you pay 2 dollars but expect 5 dollars quality.
@sfag0
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 pm
5:39 Not really if nvidia stop developing They will still need at least 5 years. to get to this level of touchology which is not a realistic scenario. The could catch up in 10 to 12 years, if nvidia, doesn’t have any breakthroughs, just growth.
@miranda_tee
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 pm
Where would the world be without China?
@Xyrus.B
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 pm
This guy seems like a Chinese spokesperson
@alexwang4807
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 pm
ngl nowadays “made in USA” kinda becomes a sign of low quality…
@Tangerine1717
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 pm
Temu isn’t cheap anymore, thanks to Donald Trump
@Nomhare
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 pm
I always say: Temu products aren’t cheap, amazon products are expensive. The western tax addition is huge, because they just sell the same stuff, but they still have to import it(price hike), store it(price hike), ship it(another), and “brand” it to their store(amazon tax). Then use local couriers etc. While as Temu grabs the product, tosses it in a bag, ships a metric ton to that country, where the local couriers bring the package and the price is alredy included in the buy price.
@Marklglt
January 21, 2026 at 3:16 pm
Everyone watching, please do your own digging into these topics, as a lot of the statements he made are not accurate. Like they say dont believe everything you see on the internet,
@Vermilion2049
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 pm
As a Chinese. This guy is spot on. Listen to him
@AudioDregs
January 21, 2026 at 4:06 pm
Also not mentioned here, but one of the first things you notice when visiting China is how much they invest in their own people; cheap food, affordable housing, civic spaces, affordable health care, great public transportation. I find it surprising that it wasn’t mentioned.
@seanm2562
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 pm
People talk about China’s infrastructure, but overlook how affordable education is. Top universities charge ~$1,000/year with plenty of scholarships – no student loan burden.
Result? Hundreds of thousands of graduates entering the workforce annually. Years of accumulated experience = compounding innovation.
When young people can access quality education without crushing debt, everyone benefits. Simple as that.
@antalito3047
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 pm
One thing I like about China is that they don’t only make plans until the next election. They see the big picture and they make plans for decades ahead. We can argue whether communism is right or wrong but I admire the strategic planning they got going on.
@yadielsotomayor5015
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 pm
Showing that if the only thing you care about is making money, eventually someone else will make money better and cheaper and take you out the running. Coorperate greed.
@ayannababii
January 21, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Getting an Amazon ad in the middle of this video is WILD
@ecokrazy
January 21, 2026 at 5:53 pm
Black Panther: Wakanda’s whole thing is being drastically more advanced than everywhere in the world, including nanotech master Tony Stark
She Hulk: there are finger chopsticks you can buy that just form to your fingers and you can eat popcorn without getting buttery, or cheetos without cheeto hands (which is the best part of cheetos don’t at me)
@zen231v
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 pm
When will WIRED release their Epstein Island Visitor Data? You did a whole video on it.
@freddyfriky
January 21, 2026 at 6:06 pm
DankDoobies420 asked 😂
@a.b2966
January 21, 2026 at 6:09 pm
China No.1
America age is over.
@darkmarc
January 21, 2026 at 6:16 pm
It’s “death knell”, not “death nail” ; and “raked over the coals”, not “racked thru the coals”.
@mmm-x9u9j
January 21, 2026 at 6:47 pm
When “supposedly” intelligent people can’t even get this right, it makes me question other aspects of their debate.
I know when I hear slang like “anyways” we’re off to an odd start.
Anywhos,anywheres 😒
@magalingo
January 21, 2026 at 8:00 pm
The speaker has very superficial knowledge of the massive amounts of topics covered. Like he read a bunch of McKinsey studies, and now thinks he is a genius on everything.
@PoppyBS-n9x
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 pm
PLEASE ASK SHELDON COOPER CAST THESE QUESTIONS
@WKaiser-km9
January 22, 2026 at 1:02 pm
“Taiwan said they have explosives around their factories and will blow them up when invaded”? Brazenly lying by a so-called expert.
@tnvuong
January 22, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Final answer bubble disappears so fast you can’t even pause the video in time..
@jonr6680
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 pm
So can your kids speak Chinese yet? They better learn…
@jabjab12
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 pm
If you build it they will come
@moolamel
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 pm
China banking on western arrogance to get free training for years looooollll
@EhNothing
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 pm
TSMC is the “silicon shield” of Taiwan, but I think it’s only a short term shield.
@siszi6
January 22, 2026 at 1:52 pm
Shame educated people like him still say “third world”….
@grmasdfII
January 22, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Trump policies backfiring?
You don’t say.
@itsbonkerjojo9028
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 pm
Which is none ☕😞
@twilightorpheus-i1b
January 22, 2026 at 2:21 pm
As it turns out, America itself is the nail in the coffin for American hegemony.
@bryanshoemaker6120
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 pm
They completely ignore all pollution standards, human rights, human safety standards, subpar material, subpar manufacturing practices. Constant theft of intellectual rights, The shipping is paid for by the government.
The fact that temu is allowed to sell stuff in the United States shows just how stupid the general population have become.
The sad thing is there are good Chinese products. But the companies either has to be protected by the Chinese government or they too get ripped off by other Chinese companies.
@arica1798
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 pm
They have bugs in their boxes
@waffillow
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 pm
9:37 thats so awesome 😭😭
@filipjovanovic
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 pm
Because Chinese workers are slaves.
@ruffsnap
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 pm
The thumbnail question is so dumb lmfao. Cheap chinese crap products are cheap because….they’re cheap crap 😂😂😂
@CedroCron
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 pm
China is in it for the long game, North America is and always has been so short sighted. That is why they shot themselves in the foot and offshored all the manufacturing and now China has the world by the nuts.
@melissacritell3291
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 pm
well probably not in Minnesota that this time. They are busy fighting 🧊🧊
@Interstellartraveltechno-rd4zx
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 pm
In my country temu apears to be as expensive as Amazon, and as misleading as aliexpress and others, so i havent notice temu as a place where great deals are to be found
@gorgthesalty
January 22, 2026 at 5:01 pm
Soon: “Made in Nigeria”
@jerry5566
January 22, 2026 at 5:53 pm
China has always made both high-quality products and cheaply made knockoffs. Before, you could spend $3 and get something solid, now you spend $10 and still end up with something cheaply made. The old “$3 quality” might realistically cost $30 today, but people still don’t realize that. It’s not you, and it’s not China either. Something in between shifted, and it made it harder for people to afford the same level of quality as before.
@reitinet
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 pm
Donald Trump hates this expert. (that’s a compliment)
@snigs5T5
January 22, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Meanwhile Mango Mussolini cedes the future to China by killing EVs and US manufacturing with tarriffs. Yes, tarriffs. And of course “TACO.” Bring it on, ignoramuses.
@bensumw
January 22, 2026 at 7:05 pm
Repeat after me, ecosystem ….ecosystem
@Jammy0024
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 pm
Extremely informative, learnt a lot!!! Great expert.
@gargoylecat2179
January 23, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Temu promotes slavery
@sunflowerbadger
January 23, 2026 at 1:12 pm
“Externalise environmental costs” i.e. pollute someone else’s country. Disgusting and ignorant. People like this are destroying our planet.
@natmmeyer
January 23, 2026 at 1:44 pm
Take a drink every time he says ecosystem
@markrainford1219
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 pm
Maybe all the big companies NEED to fail. Stop globalism and you stop a lot of what is wrong.
@hillfortherstudios2757
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 pm
I’d never buy anything made in usa ever again. I won’t make that mistake again.
@LorinWinata
January 23, 2026 at 2:34 pm
The pause before Taiwan was pure comedy. Aaron was calculating his risk.
@maggiec5311
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 pm
Goodness, why is this video dancing around so much? The frames constantly move in and out. How is anyone supposed to watch this?
@User28645
January 23, 2026 at 3:29 pm
Why is no one mentioning dankdoobies420 😭😭😭
@jgojiz
January 23, 2026 at 3:35 pm
Great video
@user9267
January 23, 2026 at 4:02 pm
NVIDIA does sell GPUs to china that are weaker, called the D SKUs (ex: 5090D)
@Dontneedit-g2o
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I have been laughing all day at “DankDoobiez420”
Not just that that was actually someones name contributing to this type of video, but how casually he reads it as though it were just “steve smith”
@cathyjoy9214
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 pm
Is it possible to slow these down, so that the audio can be better understood? ……… or at least, if it’s sped up, just don’t !!!
@filmsoftheworldverified567
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 pm
Dude, I’ve wanted to know all this for so long.
@gstlb
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 pm
Peaceful reunification sounds so benign. It would also be a takeover of a successful democracy by the communist party of China
@BZAKether
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 pm
A prime quality video, as always.
@clonecommando-8290
January 23, 2026 at 5:47 pm
This is both good and terrible at the same time
@Dosflamingos
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 pm
China number 1! Time to learn chinese
@CountDracura
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 pm
Man, this dude really loves China.
@ql1hc-s6m
January 23, 2026 at 7:36 pm
Temu is selling cheap simply because dirty poor quality, things with your favorite brand usually can last 1 year but if you buy it without the brand the claimed “SAME” thing might break at 1 month or even shorter life, so those aren’t really “SAME” things
It’s a hard fact wasted money to learn and I have stopped shopping Temu ..😢😮
@robinkarlsson1460
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 pm
Imagine if all the future autonomous cars were made by one super power. Cloud connected and back-doored for direct access, by one government.
@Q101-k4p
January 23, 2026 at 7:53 pm
By making the products extremely cheap, someone has to pay, definitely not the factory owner.
@walxeexweetok8771
January 23, 2026 at 7:55 pm
zoomer here! the constant camera cuts are making me sick, will be listening to this in the background only
@albertcsyfw4
January 23, 2026 at 7:57 pm
great discussion.
@jacksonsmith5490
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 pm
The typing and clicking noises are unnecessary and annoying
@truthalonetriumphs6572
January 23, 2026 at 8:23 pm
This doesn’t explain why the Temu products are smaller in size, thinner, and absolute crap in quality and still people seem to be using the app.
@Lyla-o1j
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 am
Can u bring the cast of finding her edge
@sambegstha1241
January 24, 2026 at 9:25 am
16:00 In the neighboring country Nepal, the taris are well over 100% close to 200% on EVs, still they’ve been one of the best adopters of EVs. A lot of factors in play, but it speaks volumes of the power of consumers.
@KazeOkami-2
January 24, 2026 at 9:26 am
No mention of the pollution China makes or the enslavement of the Uyghur people making some of the products. This expert seems pretty biased towards the capitalism answers.
@racc1337
January 24, 2026 at 10:32 am
He literally talks about the labor laws and conditions being impacted within the first 3 minutes. Also of course China has lots of pollution, but it’s still developing. I’d recommend looking at historical figures for total pollution produced rather than just one time and date.
@monacek
January 24, 2026 at 9:50 am
God is also a dictator.
@TrinhNguyen-o7k
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 am
Why did he speak so fast? Was he nervous??
@Bimtavdesign
January 24, 2026 at 12:00 pm
It’s the post production cuts, no pause between phrases…
@Vikasghale-e1r
January 24, 2026 at 10:43 am
Garbage input garbage output this informations r totally out of date and full of propaganda
@mosestekper7659
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 am
The West is soo obsessed with the “excess capacity” phrase. It is madness.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@bulka5305
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 am
Short answer communism + slave labor
@trickbaggames6579
January 24, 2026 at 12:26 pm
This guy is pretty blatantly leaning towards China. He dodges questions about working conditions, IP theft, etc. When asked if working conditions are bad their he said “they’re different”. He avoid saying that anything bad about China. He’s speaking more like a politician than a expert.
@kukivave
January 24, 2026 at 12:26 pm
“reliable” batteries at scale… except that every other EV battery in china itself, tends to explode….
@themikecutlip
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 pm
“Can we externalize some of these environmental costs” is just business-speak for “can we pollute someone else’s backyard instead?”
@axelengelmann
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 pm
gucci and lv aren’t made in china
@MWBsixx
January 24, 2026 at 1:23 pm
Can someone explain the temp discount codes? I don’t get it! Do they actually workughhhhh
@trghfrrrhrhhh00
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 pm
Temu is a cross-border e-commerce platform owned by Pinduoduo, a Chinese e-commerce company that has risen rapidly in China in recent years. Before Pinduoduo, the company that absolutely dominated China’s e-commerce market was Taobao, which is owned by Alibaba. I registered and started using Taobao as early as November 2004.
@axscdvfb
January 24, 2026 at 1:41 pm
This video is a load of bull
@pognegro
January 24, 2026 at 4:00 pm
What about the Uyghurs in concentration camps in xinjiang
@aVataR_eHYeh
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 pm
Well, let’s at least hope that the push for automation leads to that tech “trickling down” – rather than falling on top of our heads. XD
@JuicyBone1719
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 pm
11:55 Nothing about what kind of terms might actually be in a contract. Great non answer.
@zot2698
January 24, 2026 at 5:01 pm
Is this guy a china mouth piece? The words he uses are kinda sus. Something is not right….
@dirkdeschepper735
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 pm
An equally talented and educated engineer in China working 996 won’t necessarily out-produce their equivalent in the west working 955, at least not over the longer run. People burn out, become detached, less effective and turn to drugs.
@studiolezard
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 pm
If BYD were to build cars in the US, they would no longer be ‘cheaper’. Labour costs are easily double that of China.
@robertgenghiskhan
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 pm
His MacBook is a good example of the supply chain. It was designed in California, but was completely made in China
@weksauce
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 pm
raked not racked knell not nail
@davidallen6126
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 pm
This is why unions are so important. They fought so hard for 9 to 5 Mon to Friday, don’t let the tech overlords take us back to the 1800s
@iamnotthejessieyouknow8860
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 pm
Temu is Extremely goooood!! I tried once and now it’s almost unstoppable…
@alyxgurr755
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 am
One thing that’s cheap in China, and always has been, is human life. Asians regimes lose in terms of longevity and stability by eroding its human capital of the innovative and productive youth that eventually gets demoralized and starts to migrate or hollow-out.
@6033Kain
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 am
No more sweatshops… Yeah, do we know what job options the uighur internment camps provide in china? I bet we don’t…
@KimMarino
January 25, 2026 at 4:12 am
This guy sounds, looks, and smells like a salesman, I’d bet his main job is convincing Western companies to invest in Chinese manufacturing.
When he says “working conditions have improved,” he literally means they don’t need suicide nets outside factories anymore. That’s a disturbingly low bar for “progress.”
Nobody denies China is good at manufacturing. That’s not the issue. The reasons to disinvest are political, ethical, and strategic. We’re talking about the largest authoritarian regime in the world, systematic human rights abuses, environmental destruction, total surveillance, one-party rule, and power concentrated in a single leader.
This is the same country that props up North Korea, Iran, and now Russia, and teaches its children that the West is the enemy.
We created this dependency by outsourcing everything there. Now it’s time to get our heads out of the sand, and our money out of China. It’s going to take a lot of effort and some time, but anyone denying this is needed is in bad faith.
@madnessmethod2823
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 am
China is communistic so the government owns all the land, infrastructure, and banks, plus they have huge cheap labor so everything in China can be manufactured with ruthless efficiency with no red tape, that’s why they can make everything so fast and cheap
@actng
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 am
china is wayyy too proud to let immigrants to come in and dilute their “bloodlines” and that will be their downfall because of the one child policy that took place for 35~ years. but don’t underestimate the current 3 child policy they’re implementing! what china has going for them is the people are super obedient. coupled with the tax on condoms, we will soon witness a huge population boom in china… soon “boomer” will mean a different thing and it will relate to china. i’m not saying it willl be a good thing or not but it will be a thing~
@actng
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 am
and don’t forget the importation of vietnam/cambodian/thai brides because china 60/40 or 70/30 or even 80/20 male to female ratio
@spy_balloon
January 25, 2026 at 7:49 am
china doesn’t need your pity 😂 you should pity your country men instead
@andyespo13
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 am
This guy is spewing CCP propaganda. The belt and road initiative is a huge con game. The roads and bridges collapse after 2 years and the recipient country is stuck with loans they cannot repay. China has a huge homeless and unemployment problem. The car brand BYD: Burn Your Dreams. Known for randomly bursting into flames. Don’t park them in your garage.
@AurikSarker
January 25, 2026 at 6:56 am
There were three separate questions about working conditions yet the answers were all pretty vague
@spy_balloon
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 am
love all answers is vague shiet 😂 he knew he’s fvçkup if he’s not lying
@jjwallace38
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 am
China does it cheaper faster and in bigger amounts so stop hating.
@-na-nomad6247
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 am
Chinese products are not cheap, it’s the rest that’s overpriced. Also this clarifies how the Chinese government is being smart with geopolitics and is not shooting itself in the foot left and right like some other countries have been doing for the last two decades.
It’s so easy to win when your leader is not a rambling moron.
@salepass1575
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 am
Simply put, China becoming the “world’s factory” is the perfect match of greedy capitalism under authoritarian control.
@JerusalemArtichok3
January 25, 2026 at 9:27 am
Like this comment if you’re having Chinese curry for diner. BUSHH!!!
@mikel5804
January 25, 2026 at 9:30 am
China is performing the protagonist
@Noelliuss
January 25, 2026 at 11:22 am
This is the most EXPERT expert I’ve ever seen
@RLelling
January 25, 2026 at 12:16 pm
The demons started speaking through this man as soon as he justified 966 and talked about “taking humans out of the equation”. This is why those who only think of capital need to be kept on a leash by those who think of people first.
@jeromecoward9370
January 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
This chap really is an expert.
@lucaklp
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Something being made in the same factory is not the gotcha so many think it is.
Quality is more than that, above all it is the quality of the materials used. A factory could produce a bag that looks visually similar with materials that cost 10% of the cost. I’m not saying luxury prices make sense but the “we make the same stuf for $2” is bs
@46j78p
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 pm
Point of correction: It’s death KNELL (like the church bells are announcing someone’s passing) not death NAIL. (Though the phrase, “nail in the coffin” makes this one understandably easy to kiss!)
@sssonho
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 pm
imagine getting beat down at your own game. the one were you invade other countries to steal their resources . china number 1
@DesignedByMayo
January 25, 2026 at 4:22 pm
Nice text book story. But how do salmon steaks cost pennies in other countries some of which where salmon are not native so they have to be shipped across the world. Oh because there isn’t a greedy US LLC as the middle man.
@Cprtlcfbnv
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Mankind has now mastered the ability to create trash with the upmost efficiancy. Congrats. 👍
@bxclent_emmett
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 pm
we did this it must be cheap thing with Japan
@andrewlyon9292
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 pm
I’m 15:09 in and he hasn’t once mentioned the communist dictatorship that runs the country being a vital reason for all of this…suspect
@AirSierra
January 25, 2026 at 6:24 pm
👍
@Pandemonium088
January 25, 2026 at 7:21 pm
Western companies are far more greedy than China 😅
@pupunoob
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 am
Taiwan willing to kill people and y’all are just applauding that. Lol.
@BestManxy
January 26, 2026 at 8:00 am
That was a very weak response on copyright. What about eg shoes branded as adidas that are clearly not adidas?
@MOUWFFAK
January 26, 2026 at 8:13 am
finally a great video
@hisham_hm
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 am
6:13 note that we he says “they” it means the Communist government. The West loves to ridicule the Soviet Union, but China is basically central planning done right.
@seilgu
January 26, 2026 at 10:03 am
even if you count in the labor costs and raw materials costs, it’s still too cheap. And if they’re really making a profit, the only possible way is if labor costs nothing, but what if, a more plausible explanation is that most of the stuff are made by robots already?
@ctaatccta
January 26, 2026 at 11:51 am
2:16 “DankDoobies420 asked…”
@merxellus
January 26, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Who edited this shi?.. First day of job?
@gasparsigma
January 26, 2026 at 12:11 pm
1:36 a roundabout way of saying that if you’re paying that cheap it was made by modern day slavery
@BIeak1
January 26, 2026 at 12:26 pm
Tesla built up the Chinese car manufacture industry for the competitors? What a joke do you try to tell us here? BYD launched electric cars already in 2008/2009.
@BIeak1
January 26, 2026 at 12:30 pm
The expert doesn’t dare to say that “Made in USA” means low quality 3rd world products.
@matthewwei5259
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 pm
incredibly well explained
@looow
January 26, 2026 at 12:58 pm
this was incredibly informative. wow. keep it up wired!!
@jasonu7471
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Those cell phone cases clearly don’t fit into your boxes.
@breeze787
January 26, 2026 at 1:06 pm
I bought into the narrative a long time ago that Chinese stuff was of low quality. In fact I had evidence in a screw made in China where it turned like a broken wheel. However I bought a DJI Mavic Pro drone and played with it in my back yard and the technology and the quality blew me away. Since then I noticed Made in China was made with the utmost of quality and Chinese pride showed up in spades. My tools (Ryobi) are made in China and for a DIY like myself the quality build is superb to the old heavy overbuilt US tool versions. I am happy for Chinas success I hope to visit the Chinese city that makes watches and get me what we call a counterfeited Rolex.
@tarakjain917
January 26, 2026 at 1:28 pm
@wired could you also interview those who have written books like ncert for indians or people who are behind the books schools use to teach kids
@thenamelessone123
January 26, 2026 at 2:02 pm
This guy stands out as really being an expert in his field. Knows everything about every question and answers it straightforwardly and clearly – EXCELLENT
@benhardy172
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Probably the most informative, information filled, current vision of the future, on china I’ve seen, if you have spent any time there you know
@detbarewagner7571
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 pm
It’s not even that cheap 😂
@freecalradia
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 pm
As a German I can assure you that 99 of 100 people here do not think ‘made in USA’ stands or stood for a good product quality.
@screampact
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 pm
im grateful for chinese people to give us so much good and not so good stuff
phones, computers, everyday products
you can cry all day about uyghur rights and taiwan and ameica bitching, i don’t care. go go china!
although i prefer aliexpress to temu
@cornhuskar
January 26, 2026 at 6:07 pm
TSMC isn’t the only bottleneck, ASML in the Netherlands actually manufacture the most advance lithography machines in collaboration with a ton of other companies. The USA having a braindead animal in the Oval office alienating the EU non-stop for no reason is insanity.
@hannanashrafmughal9367
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 pm
dude knows the game , worthy of being called an expert 👏
@Zyphera
January 26, 2026 at 6:51 pm
So diplomatic answers, or is it dry sarcasm.
@Zyphera
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Not mentioned here: There imperialism to secure all raw materials in Africa etc.
@cogoid
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 pm
Generally this was a surprisingly candid QnA.
(12:25) Just to add about pharmaceuticals. Chinese students are among the best organic synthesis chemists in the world. Although the labor costs have steadily increased through the years, a PhD level chemist in China still earns only half as much as they would in Germany. Therefore, there are many companies in China (and also in India) willing to do labor intensive custom organic synthesis of complex products at the prices that cannot be matched in the West. The skill per dollar is the main reason why these products are made in China, India, and to some extent in Eastern Europe, e.g. in Czech Republic. Other factors mentioned in the video (overall ecosystem with its supply chains, longer term planing) are also important and create even greater competitive advantage.
@adeniyas
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 am
Disappointing that the lead picture for this video is “Why is Temu so cheap” and De Minimis exemptions and international postal agreements highly favoring China are left out. I understand the excess capacity and manufacturing items at a loss (albeit increasing the bottom line) strategy but that export option only exists in their major external markets because of the two aforementioned topics.
China is playing a great game of chess and it is awesome to see their population scaling the economic ladders. Any missteps on the board and this guy couldn’t say a thing about it anyway; not everything is always sunshine and rainbows…
@LuckyGirl582
January 27, 2026 at 12:27 am
Very informative, but it also seems to be a little too pro-china🤨
@tooltalk
January 27, 2026 at 12:49 am
he’s a China outsourcing consultant — makes living by advising his clients on outsourcing stuff to China.
@modernica
January 27, 2026 at 3:33 pm
@tooltalk Wired should actually list this here so people know not to take this guy seriously.
@joshuadaniel7135
January 27, 2026 at 2:43 am
So, is China’s environment f*****d??
@deanedgx
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 am
So, we are doomed.
@MOlNlI
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 am
“ABC, anywhere but China” – haven’t heard that one before 😂
@michaelzhou2819
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 am
Some western business do not bother to get their stuff patented in China but assume no one is clever enough to reproduce their products.
@Noxelius
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 am
US economy really needs to hold up its legimmy
@s.b.sstudios5891
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 pm
Understood . 100 billion $ to israel
@ikkibrittania7890
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 am
You buy shipping in Temu not items 💀
@username40000
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 am
If people are working 996, that’s a sweatshop
@xXBLAKGOATXx
January 27, 2026 at 8:47 am
😂😂😂😂 2:13 mans been trying to explain common sense as fast as possible clearly these videos are directed towards an American audience lacking intelligences and what not
@BlueSkull-c6z
January 27, 2026 at 10:56 am
I preffer Aliex…
@temporary_profile1
January 27, 2026 at 10:59 am
wow so China’s solution to declining population is to doubling down on Automaton? 😂
@wilsonluo4830
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 pm
but at what cost?
@alexkrycek3359
January 27, 2026 at 12:59 pm
Was the editor having a seizure?!
@amlaaaa479
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 pm
This is really badly edited. It’s often hard to catch the beginning of his sentence
@flaviusfake271
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 pm
@10:05 Seriously no mention of the massive government subsidies. Tax free land donated if you build EVs for example. Bonus subsidies for manufacturing and selling certain amounts.
That is also BIG reason why so many companies exists in China and why so many wish to export urgently. Hence currently China has over 100 EV manufacturers. Probably only 15 will survive the next 5 years.
This expert just lost a lot of credibility. Obviously he wishes to keep great relationships with China so he isn’t complaining about anything.
@ianmoone8244
January 27, 2026 at 2:17 pm
China do not want Intel and AMD products, because of theirs backdoors like Intel Management Engine and AMD’s PSP and if NVIDIA choose to put backdoors on its chips too China will refuse those too! America is a CONTINENT, not a country! Only retards think that Africa and America are countries!
@uwuphobia728
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 pm
1:43 aka slaves
@modernica
January 27, 2026 at 3:32 pm
This is just blatant propaganda.
@Mah_fb
January 27, 2026 at 3:32 pm
Fantastic video! Só much great information l. Thank you
@willardsandy2589
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 pm
You’re just used to being overcharged . temu prices are normal.
@ijuvatar
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 pm
temu is economical warfare backed by the ccp
@jaxypassionblocks
January 27, 2026 at 5:13 pm
TeeeMO’ ?
@dont_trust_any1_even_ur_waifu
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 pm
you gotta love a middle aged white man. it is the pinnacle and symbol of anytime you need a true expert. for example whenever Im taking a flight Im so relieved when my pilot is a middle aged whiteman.
@BuzzaB77
January 27, 2026 at 8:15 pm
They also take advantage of a shipping loophole where they are classed as a third world country meaning your own country’s postal service actually subsidizes some of the shipping cost.
@RealLifeinAfghanistan-f9s
January 27, 2026 at 8:38 pm
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@ThemasterOFnoNEDiyer
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 pm
Fun fact: Shopee is more cheaper than temu
@HiddenThoracle
January 27, 2026 at 10:03 pm
Traditionally no Asian country has an open immigration policy – because instead of skilled labor it would just be a mass influx of wite guys with yellow fever lol
@Nezumossonicaquarium
January 27, 2026 at 10:47 pm
Slave labour and zero safety standards. Not only on the mainland but also in their african colonies.
@viddyd3342
January 27, 2026 at 11:51 pm
Dumping endless butt-tons of toxic waste into Chinese rivers
=
“Externalizing environmental cost”
@christmasisawesome9348
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 am
Can we get even more cut? This isn’t enough.
@0num4
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 am
Temu exemplifies the idea of “I’d rather sell a million $1 items than a single $1M item.”
@zooap52
January 28, 2026 at 1:02 am
Its cheaper because there are no American corporate middle men siphoning all the profits and then selling it to you at 10x the price it cost them to buy. There, dont need a 30min video
@miner3822
January 28, 2026 at 1:09 am
Dumping. Unfair for chines citizens. Brutal chines oligarchs.
@grahamo8863
January 28, 2026 at 1:19 am
What you need to do is to create a free trade system that workers right are levelled across the board and strictly enforced, but that’s socialism I guess 😊
@ImDreamingVideo
January 28, 2026 at 7:34 am
This “expert” is the most ridiculous China shill ever. At least, try to sound credible and less obviously lies.
@unicorn-tacobread
January 28, 2026 at 7:43 am
Imagine how much further our technologies would have been if kapitalism wasnt a thing to begin with.
@tennesseeheckler3014
January 28, 2026 at 8:14 am
It’s fascinating how the US banning chips to China backfired. China managed to make a complex LLM AI that uses a fraction of the energy that the US equivalents require. Unless the US changes it’s short sighted thinking, we have already lost. We see things in terms of sales quarters and election cycles. China is looking ahead on a scale of generations.
@david.luta28
January 28, 2026 at 9:17 am
Ok
@jesusjimenes
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 am
6:53 Donald Trump hands
@sbevington2664
January 28, 2026 at 11:24 am
Dude comes across as being on the Chinese government payroll.
@NOoNe21
January 28, 2026 at 12:09 pm
anyone else get the feeling this guy doesnt like regulation?
@salvadorgonzalez1595
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 pm
Wow😮 TSMC has a self destruct option.
@lackkcal9664
January 28, 2026 at 5:22 pm
When high productivity is labelled as excess capacity lol
@kubes8388
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 pm
Bro where he went to in Singapore, didn’t Deng Xiaoping learn Marxist in France and economic zones elsewhere in Asia? Who’s got the check on this, Singapore was about regulation but they aren’t the most successful SEZ
@Asuka.the.Perfectionistic
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 pm
i know someone who owns a factory for producing cloths, and what they do, literally, is put out AI or rendered picture of a certain, say, hoodie, on temu beforehand, and if the amount of people ordering it is large enough, they are capable of producing a large batch literally in a day or two and then ship it to the US, and if not they’ll just remove that item and refund to people who paid for it, this is truely mindblowing to me
@anastasiiachepinska8302
January 28, 2026 at 9:22 pm
Guys, cut the number of cuts, I feel nauseous after watching otherwise amazing video!!!
@DanielPereira-ey9nt
January 28, 2026 at 9:31 pm
Poor working conditions in long hours is just what pure unfiltered capitalism looks like, people forget that labor laws and regulations are something that workers fought a lot to conquer
@dustsmoke
January 28, 2026 at 11:08 pm
Lost me when you said “we have lower prescription costs than we otherwise would have”. You clearly don’t know what is going on with pharmaceuticals in America.
@PretzelLogic88
January 28, 2026 at 11:45 pm
In this video: American capitalist explains why socialist central planning actually produces superior societal outcomes 😂
@Aivern
January 29, 2026 at 5:44 am
How issit it takes the US 2-3yrs to setup basic manufacturing but it takes china 2-3 yrs to reach sophisticated chip manufacturing that’s supposedly exclusive only to companies like tsmc and asml? What in the fk is all those yrs of technological headstart if all it takes is 3yrs?
@Goagubbe79
January 29, 2026 at 7:15 am
You should hire a cut expert because this clip is unwatchable.
@xpeterpeter5395
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 am
This guy is great, forefronting the geopolitical aspects is how we should talk about these things. everything is geopolitics. your little temu wallet reflects centuries of evolving international and domestic political structures
@crazyg74
January 29, 2026 at 9:09 am
if only it was that simple… lol
@jdharibizzle
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 am
was this sponsored by china ???
@KitWolf
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 am
China brainwashed
@tonyliang8099
January 29, 2026 at 12:15 pm
🩸 money is heavily regulated by m and s instas
Like failure not an option lvl
@marimutu1
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 pm
Its so funny to me that America is so obsessed with capitalism but we rely so heavy on a communist country. It almost feels like even billionaires think that its worth investing in. Just as long as its not our own.
@Frendh
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 pm
Problem is to navigate through all the different items and find what is good quality and what is not. The biggest scam category I have bumped into personally is the li-ion battery market.
@vinnyivanov2906
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 pm
Impossible to watch, but listening was really good 👍
@vinnyivanov2906
January 29, 2026 at 3:25 pm
So basically regulation is chocking us, and de-regulation is making them thrive… got it
@johnriddington9514
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 pm
The stupidity behind handballing manufacturing to China because it was extremely cheap but your western company got the profits, to then now crying that Chinese companies are keeping the profits, is wild. Conservative politics is entirely the rich trying to get richer.
@kaiserli5987
January 29, 2026 at 6:50 pm
I live in China and I must say everything this guy said is true e.g. different cities with different specialty manufacturing. He clearly knows what he is talking about, experienced, and must have been on the ground in China. Awesome source to have in your channel!
@teko773
January 29, 2026 at 7:44 pm
How to become knowledgeable like him